[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

John M. Owen

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmer living with his mother and 4 siblings on James Clark's farm at Corn House/Roanoke, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Staunton, VA on 20 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 which also says he died in Shepherdstown, VA on 30 September. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother Otis was also in Company K and at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

10/20/1862; Staunton, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32820]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32821]

« Search for another Person